Syngenta Vegetable Seeds' Future of Veg event in Salinas, California, displayed innovations featuring new disease resistance, new varieties, and adaptability for cauliflower, romaine, and spinach growers. The event was hosted on August 12 –13.
"Our Salinas event brought solutions in lettuce, spinach, and brassica to growers," said Ana Grau, Syngenta Vegetable Seeds Americas brand and customer head. "We're excited to share these latest solutions and details about our pipeline to help them fill slotting schedules and discover new opportunities."
International and local visitors talked with experts who work behind the scenes to bring varieties to operations worldwide. This inside look showed how its robust trialing program and local knowledge, combined with customer feedback, helped drive its innovations to help growers solve problems and address growing challenges.
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"What distinguished our team's presentations was their laser focus on our growers' priorities," said Andre Cariou, Syngenta Vegetable Seeds regional commercial head, LATAM and AGH. "We recognize that while disease resistance is critical for romaine and spinach production, cauliflower growers require advanced self-wrapping head characteristics. Regardless of the challenge, our breeding teams consistently develop solutions to anticipate market and customer needs."
Innovations in dozens of crops were on display, including:
- Cauliflower, featuring the company's newest variety, Stella, which is adapted to grow specifically in the desert southwest and California central coast areas. Breeders also introduced Lacerta, a top-performing, temperate variety that works well for California overwinter growing and spring slotting — and features key disease resistance.
- In romaine, the company offers a robust portfolio that can fulfill its slotting needs. Growers can depend on the company to provide them not only the seeds, but also the information needed to complete their slotting schedule. Disease resistance is top-of-mind, for example, Syngenta was among the first to bring INSV resistance to the Salinas Valley, in addition to resistance to many other critical diseases in lettuce.
- For spinach, the company offers baby spinach varieties with adaptability and four varieties with full powdery mildew resistance. Research into this important crop is growing, and as solutions are discovered around the world, they can be trialed in many locations to see where they might be a fit.
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"At Future of Veg, we're not just showcasing products; we're building the roadmap for vegetable production that will feed generations to come," said Juan Pablo Lopez, Syngenta Vegetable Seeds regional commercial head, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
For more information:
Sonja Begemann
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds
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ww.syngentavegetables.com
